Chit Ko Ko Win, Nang Mwe Seng
The ECG beat detection is the essential process in the ECG analysis. By detecting its position, we can learn the physiological information of the subjects, e.g. heart rate. In this paper, we propose an FPGA oriented real-time ECG beat detection with MATLAB HDL Coder/Verifier. The detection algorithm is based on Pan-Tompkins algorithm. MATLAB HDL Coder/Verifier is used to convert floating point algorithm to fixed point algorithm and generate Verilog Hardware Description Language (Verilog HDL). The testing results show that the proposed architecture can achieve an efficient detection performance where the average detection accuracy exceeds 98.57%. The performance of algorithm tested against MATLAB routine and validated results based on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database.
ECG, QRS Complex, Pan-Tompkins, HDL Coder, MIT-BIH